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title: With fidelity and cleverness has he perpetuated the legends and song… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: With fidelity and cleverness has he perpetuated the legends and songs once current among these peoples, and now fast lapsing into oblivion. Who acts: Joel. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 1, with its dependency tree a
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 1, sentence 17

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With fidelity and cleverness has he perpetuated the legends and songs once current among these peoples, and now fast lapsing into oblivion.

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**Who acts:** Joel · **What happens:** perpetuate, lapse · **To what, where:** legends, oblivion

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This is a sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Joel), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg76586:1:17
# text = With fidelity and cleverness has he perpetuated the legends and songs once current among these peoples, and now fast lapsing into oblivion.
1	With	with	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	fidelity	fidelity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	cleverness	cleverness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
5	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	perpetuated	perpetuate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	legends	legend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	songs	song	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
12	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	13	advmod	_	_
13	current	current	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
14	among	among	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	16	det	_	_
16	peoples	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	21	advmod	_	_
20	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	21	advmod	_	_
21	lapsing	lapse	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
22	into	into	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	oblivion	oblivion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **perpetuate** | present · perfect | Joel | the legends and songs |  |  |  | with fidelity and cleverness | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent legend=Patient with fidelity=Instrument |
| 2 | **lapse** | gerund | Joel *not said here* |  |  | oblivion | now | fast *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Project Gutenberg book 76586 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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